NI CITIZENSHIP REPORT

Employee Philanthropy and Volunteerism

Philanthropy

National Instruments is proud of the individual impact employees make with their personal philanthropy. In 2010, NI employees donated a record amount of funds to their communities through the annual corporate giving campaign, which was an increase of 27 percent over the previous year.

NI GIVES Fall Giving Campaign and Matching Gifts
In 2010, NI held its 15th annual NI GIVES fall giving campaign, the internal giving campaign for US employees. NI employees have the opportunity to make donations through a variety of channels, including payroll deductions, check, or credit and debit card payments, making it easy for employees to donate to the charities of their choice.

Employee donations through this campaign in 2010 totaled more than $699,600 USD, with an average of $608 USD given per donor.

In addition to the annual fall giving campaign, throughout the year, US employees can request that NI match a donation they have given to a qualified nonprofit organization. NI matches an employee's donation of up to $1,000 USD per year, increasing the impact of the employee’s contribution on the community¹. In 2010, total employee donations through the matching gifts program exceeded $221,000 USD, bringing the total donations for both the fall giving campaign and the matching gifts program to more than $921,000 USD.

¹ After acquiring the operating assets of Measurement Computing Corporation, NI preserved the existing matching gift policy for that site and continues to match employee donations of up to $2,000 USD per year.

NI Headquarters Employee Philanthropy

Employee Philanthropy (USD)

Program	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Fall Giving Campaign ^*	$342,539	$356,612	$450,748	$495,500	$510,000	$549,407	$699,612
Matching Gifts	$72,788	$100,000	$129,973	$120,923	$180,142	$166,189	$221,619
Total Donations	$415,327	$456,612	$580,721	$616,423	$690,142	$715,596	$921,231

^* The total amount donated through the fall giving campaign includes matching gifts requested during that time frame.

Although the NI GIVES fall giving campaign is a US-based effort, some NI branches have adopted the fundraising campaign to help facilitate employee giving. One example is with NI United Kingdom and Ireland, whose employees donated approximately £5,000 to their favorite charities in 2010. NI United Kingdom and Ireland also matches an employee's donation of up to £500 per year.

NI Leaders in Giving
NI Leaders in Giving are US-based employees who donate $1,000 USD or more throughout the year to nonprofit organizations using NI giving tools. Each quarter, members of NI Leaders in Giving meet to network with other like-minded employees and learn about opportunities to give their time, talent, and resources to the community. In 2010, the program attracted 318 participants, representing approximately 12 percent of the US employee base.

NI Sharing Tree
The NI Sharing Tree is a program that gives NI employees at corporate headquarters the opportunity to volunteer and provide in-kind or financial resources to those in need during the holiday season. Opportunities such as the Salvation Army Angel Tree and LifeWorks Adopt-a-Family programs are popular among employees.

2010 Accomplishments Through the NI Sharing Tree

	2007	2008	2009	2010
Children sponsored through Salvation Army Angel Tree program	233	205	184	206
Families sponsored through Communities in Schools and LifeWorks programs	15	14	10	8
Holiday cards for Meals on Wheels delivery to homebound elders	490	244	723	253 ¹
Shoes donated to underprivileged students through Shoes for Austin Holly Days program	71	40	38	64

¹ Meals on Wheels required less holiday cards than previous years.

Global Giving for Disaster Relief in Haiti
NI employee philanthropy is not limited to the annual fall giving campaign. While NI provides an avenue for employees to donate to the causes they are passionate about, it is oftentimes the employees who drive philanthropic efforts. Additionally, employees not only get involved with initiatives that benefit the communities in which they live but they often extend their compassion to individuals outside of their country of region who are in need.

When a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, NI employees around the world responded with significant financial contributions to aid relief efforts. NI corporate headquarters employees donated $19,727 USD to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief & International Relief Fund while NI China employees raised approximately $3,600 USD for the Red Cross Society of China and NI United Kingdom and Ireland employees donated approximately £2,000 for relief efforts. To support its employees and help those in need, NI matched the nearly $20,000 USD contribution from headquarters employees and made a significant corporate donation to the Red Cross. In addition, the NI United Kingdom and Ireland branch office matched donations of up to £500 per employee to Haiti relief efforts.

Additionally, NI employees felt compelled to do more than just provide financial contributions. NI Netherlands donated hundreds of balsa wood toy planes in the hopes of bringing smiles to the faces of Haitian children. The branch also donated notebooks and pens to help efforts to rebuild schools. One employee from NI corporate headquarters felt so moved by the situation in Haiti that he traveled to the devastated country for a 10-day stay to help local rebuilding efforts.

NI Employee Philanthropy Efforts Around the World

Below is a sample of the many ways NI employees are giving back to those less fortunate. ^*

NI Office	Employee Philanthropic Efforts
NI ASEAN	Donated $5,000 USD to Thai Red Cross for flood disaster relief
NI Canada	Raised CAD $2,100 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation and for prostate cancer awareness
NI China	Contributed $3,600 USD for Haiti earthquake relief efforts and $5,600 USD to help people impacted by the earthquake that struck China’s Qinghai Province
NI Corporate Headquarters	Donated $699,600 USD to nonprofit organizations through the NI GIVES fall giving campaign and $19,700 for Haiti earthquake relief efforts
NI France	Raised €3,100 to help Action Contre la Faim combat hunger in low-income countries
NI Hungary	Donated money to aid disaster relief efforts in Haiti and Hungary
NI India	Contributed INR 518,000 to provide scholarships to low-income students, INR 73,000 monthly to several welfare organizations such as Aspire Foundation and New Hope, and INR 35,000 to fund microbusinesses in rural areas
NI Japan	Raised funds for the UNICEF Foreign Coin Collection initiative to help children in Africa
NI Korea	Contributed $800 USD per month to Save the Children, donated 5,000 coal briquettes to the poor, and raised $2,000 USD for social welfare agencies
NI Mexico	Donated to several child welfare-related organizations
NI Thailand	Contributed $5,000 USD to the Thai Red Cross to assist with flood relief efforts
NI United Kingdom and Ireland	Raised £2,000 for Haiti earthquake relief efforts and £200 for cancer research through the 5K Relay for Life

^*All totals in this table are rounded to the nearest hundred.

CASE STUDY

Supporting FIRST LEGO^® League Back Home

When the coordinator of the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) in Colombia made it known there were schools in the country that could not afford to participate in the robotics competition, a group of NI corporate headquarters employees from South America made a commitment to provide five LEGO MINDSTORMS ^® NXT kits to support the schools.

The five employees – Aashish Mehta, Claudia Lorente, Patricia Villagomez, Daniel Domene, and Matt Komenan – took on the challenge of raising the money to purchase the robotics kits because they wanted to support the educational prosperity of the region of their birth. Through their fundraising efforts, the employees secured monetary donations from 158 of their coworkers at NI headquarters and purchased six robotics kits – one more than their goal. Additionally, NI and the robotics kit distributor in Colombia were so impressed by the fundraising efforts that they provided an additional seven kits.

Because of the efforts of five NI employees, 13 LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits were donated to underprivileged schools in Colombia. Now, those schools have the chance to increase their competencies in science and technology and participate in the FLL competition.

NI employee Efosa Ojomo started the nonprofit organization, Poverty Stops Here, to help alleviate extreme poverty in low-income countries.

An NI employee’s child learns the importance of charitable giving by participating in the NI Sharing Tree.

EMPLOYEE PROFILE

Tony and Denise Iglesias

Tony, an NI R&D senior software engineer, and Denise, an NI R&D section manager, had different views on philanthropy. Denise started participating in the NI GIVES campaign as a young engineer out of college, while Tony felt strongly about holding onto his money. It was not until he married Denise and found his passion for FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) that Tony changed his mind about personal philanthropy. "I made it my goal to contribute enough money over a few years to my alma mater to at least cover one year of schooling for one student," Tony says. "Someone gave me that opportunity, and it only seemed right that I should create that opportunity for someone else." Now, Tony and Denise are dedicated philanthropists and served as the cochairs for the record-breaking 2010 NI GIVES fall giving campaign.